Summer's Harvest

I am not a real canning mama but I do dabble a little this time of year with tomatoes, pickles, jams, etc.  There is something so satisfying when you line up your bounty on the shelves freshly sealed and oh so colorful. I love to hear the "ping" of a jar sealing after its removed from the water bath and you know you've been successful.

I went to our local farmers market this morning and bought every color of sweet pepper I could find, green, red, yellow, purple and white.

I chopped all the peppers and some sweet onions to be added to the tomatoes.  I take this shortcut so that when I use a jar or two for chili I already have my peppers and onions in the mix.

Beautiful red tomatoes are in abundance right now in our area.

Everything is finished and put away from this project and here is some of the end results.

Hopefully some of you are spending a day or two canning too. 

Today we are praying for all those being effected by Hurricane Irene.